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system that operated within the vicinity of Sunway City,

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, west from the country's capital city,

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. The system included a single looped line with three stations around Sunway City, and was the second monorail system to operate in Malaysia following the

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, and the first public monorail in the country, opening in 2000 and predating the launch of the

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by three years.

Line and rolling stock

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water theme park, stopping at three key locations on the northern and western side of the loop: * Sunway Pyramid East monorail station - One station east of the

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shopping centre. * Sunway Pyramid west monorail station - One station west of Sunway Pyramid, currently within the site of the shopping Centre's 2006-2007 extension. Now has been refurbished to

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a franchise hamburger restaurants. * Sunway College monorail station - One station east former name of

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and a Malaysian campus of Monash University, both of which are situated side-by-side. * Additionally, a branch line extends 600m west towards the monorail system's

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from the loop. The monorail system operated with two five-car SL5 trains in its rolling stock; the trains produced by Severn-Lamb, a British locomotive manufacturer. The total cost of the loop was an estimated US$10 million.

Expansions, closure and potential revivals

The Sunway Monorail system was intended to support additional extensions in the following years. Plans were made to construct two addition loops with interconnecting stations at all three loops, but none of the plans were realised. The system ceased operation within years following its opening. Despite its closure, portions of tracks along the line, as well as its depot, remain. In 2007 there were unconfirmed reports on plans regarding a potential revival of the monorail link, additionally connecting to the

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(proposed to be renamed Sunway station). The system was later on modified as a walkway connecting various universities around the area, as well as being incorporated into the currently in operation

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to the

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's USJ7 station via

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Gallery

File:SW Sunway Pyramid outside.jpg, Photo showing the defunct 3 km steel-tracked loop monorail system.

References

External links

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Line and rolling stock

Expansions, closure and potential revivals

Gallery

See also

References

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